Professor Robin Cormack Teaches Greek, Roman and Byzantine art history in the Classics Faculty at the University of Cambridge and recently curated the major Byzantium 330-1453 exhibition at the Royal Academy. Professor Cormack is an Invited Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics at Cambridge where his wife, Mary Beard, is Professor of Classics. His current research interests include the cultural history of Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai from Late Antiquity onwards. His research publications and books mostly focus on the art of the Mediterranean, and recently he has published on British Colonial architecture of the early 20tn century in Khartoum and New Delhi. He covers all periods of Classical and Byzantine art, and regularly works in Greece and Italy. He has recently done research as visiting scholar at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C.

Professor Cormack has been a guest lecturer on the Aegean Odyssey on several cruises in the Mediterranean and the Far East.

Recommended reading relevant to the trip:

• “Rediscovering the Christ Pantocrator at Daphni”, Journal of the Courtauld and Warburg Institutes, LXXI (2008), 55-74

General/non-specialist:

• Robin Cormack, Painting the Soul. Icons, Death Masks, Shrouds (Reaktion Books, 1997) Winner of the Runciman Award for 1998.

Specialist/academic:

• Robin Cormack, Byzantine Art, (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Publications - General/non-specialist:

• Robin Cormack, Icons (British Museum and Harvard University Press, 2007)
• Elizabeth Jeffreys, John Haldon, Robin Cormack (editors and contributors), Handbook of Byzantine Studies (Oxford University Press, 2008)
• Robin Cormack and Maria Vassilaki (editors), Byzantium 330-1453 (Royal Academy, 2009)

Specialist/academic:

• ‘The Baptism of Christ: new light on early El Greco and Domenikos Theotokopoulos’ (with Maria Vassilaki), Apollo, July 2005.
• “Virgin and Child from Egypt”, in R.Temple (ed), Masterpieces of Early Christian Art and Icons, (London, 2005), 22-29.
• “The recent acquisition of the Municipality of Heraklion: Domenikos Theotokopoulos’ The Baptism of Christ” (with Maria Vassilaki), in Greek with English summary, The Annual Journal of the Benaki Museum, 5 (2006), 55-70
• “...and the Word was God: Art and Orthodoxy in late Byzantium” in Andrew Louth and Augustine Cassidy (eds), Byzantine Orthodoxies, (Aldershot, 2006), 111-20.
• Harrison, L., Cormack, R., Cartwright, C.R. &  Ambers, J.  2008   ‘An Icon of St. George: preparation for a portrait of a saint’ in J. H. Townsend, T. Doherty, G. Heydenreich & J. Ridge (eds.) Preparation for Painting: The Artist's Choice and its Consequences (Archetype Publications, London) pp 14-21.
• ‘Painter’s Guides, Model-Books, Pattern-Books and Craftsmen: or Memory and the Artist?’ in Michele Bacci (ed), L’artista a Bisanzio e nel mondo cristiano-orientale, (Pisa, 2007), 11-29.
• “Rediscovering the Christ Pantocrator at Daphni”, Journal of the Courtauld and Warburg Institutes, LXXI (2008), 55-74